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 Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 11:05 am
This is a topic about electronics and how it has changed out lives from the past and what it will be doing in the future.
My opinion is that people are becoming more lazy since new things are being discovered and depending on electricity more. Someday when there will be a blackout, most people will lose their will to do anything.
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Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 10:56 am
A blackout will not last long enough to do any serious damage to society. All the major services have backup generators for that kind of emergency. And many people are too dependant on technology, addiction to technology is a rising factor in north america and the rest of the world. You know that you dont want to go back in time to when we did not have computers. Your life would not be fun at all.
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Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 5:27 pm
What happens if there is an extreme black out and no one is able to use any type of electronical device. I think if we could lower down the computer activity. But that won't ever happen since there are so many people going online and trying to place so many things.
Most people will be using the computer to store things and not books. Soon, when the black out will occur. Their memories and belongings they did would be gone. I will pity them. I think life would be alright if we didn't have computers. Look at the years before computers were invented there were still other things people were able to do. It's just that not many people would be willing to do it or won't think about it.
Gaming for example. There are too many electronic games. Before when there weren't any people would just run arond and play tag or something. But some areas consider tag lethal. Why? Because it's leading into "gang related" actions.
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Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 11:21 am
I agree that people are too dependant on computers and electronics, but without computers it would take longer to a) send information b) get information and c) without computers we wouldn't even be having this discussion.
However, mindless video gaming and such will make this generation the first to lose their thumbs.
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Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 5:29 pm
I understand what you mean Badger10. But there are other ways in bringing this discussion to life, such as clubs.
Before. They used books to get information, mailing to send information. People were patient to do that. Are you saying that we impatient now?
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Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 12:44 pm
I'm saying that the demand for immediate gratification has rapidly increased, and that people aren't willing to wait that long nowadays to, for example, send out holiday cards. Internet allows them to personalize it and send it to nearly anyone they could ever want to without having to sit down, write them all out, stick them in envolopes, and then send them. And then with e-mail cards you don't have to worry about the letter getting lost or being late, because it's there in half a second.
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Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 4:48 pm
But now there is a risk for hackers, viruses, spam, worms, ect. that will come sometimes. Hackers and other people who like to create viruses and other bad data update and make it stronger sometimes going through the firewall that was built to "protect" the computer. The e-mail can be accidently deleted. What happens if the computer goes down and then everything messes up? The e-mails that was saved in the computer would be gone forever including memorable pictures. In mailing it could be saved in a small box and pictures could be placed in an album.
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Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 11:02 am
Yes, but tangible things like that can get damaged or destroyed by fires, careless relatives, etc. Though things get deleted on the computer, most of them can be replaced, and it wouldn't kill anyone to retype a couple paragraphs of an e-mail.
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Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 11:58 am
I will agree with you with some areas... Such as when I typed an e-mail my computer froze on me so I had to reboot my e-mail that I was typing was deleted and so I had to write all over again. However I forgot what I was typing about and ended up saying a little something different to the person.
I still believe that sometimes technology can be a bit too much. Such as sometimes people keep e-grading (updating the electronics) so quickly that the person would never use their old electronics. Sometimes electronics are wasted and used for nothing.
((Kind of busy and unable to write anything else at the moment.))
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Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 4:43 pm
((That's fine, my brain is presently turned off.))
I agree with you there. New gaming systems are always being introduced, and soon a year old system that cost hundreds of dollars is obsolete, and all that money is wasted. Not to mention all the games bought for that particular system that doesn't work on any other system.
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Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 2:19 pm
Electronics.
Hmm....
While I will agree completely that everyone and everything depends way too much on all the new technology, I can't say that I'd rather it'd be gone.
I too depend on it way more than I should.
I do other things of course, like reading and a few sports when they're in season, but I have a gamecube and a tv in my room, so at night that's what I do. It can be addicting.
It does kind of interfere with homework time of course, but I've gotten used to late nights and rushed assignments.
Besides that, I don't know what I'd do without my precious computer.
I mean, without this computer, this conversation wouldn't even be happening.
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